ray gun by John Bunting

Prose publications

My stories, non-fiction and interviews have been published in various journals and other venues.

Non-fiction

‘Tiny Steps: the Electr(on)ification of Cordite’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 36 (2012), <http://cordite.org.au/guncotton/tiny-steps-the-electronification-of-cordite>.

‘Year of the White Tiger and Steam’, Victorian Writers’ Centre Newsletter (Mar. 2010).

‘Bonfire of the vanity presses’, The Australian, 29 Mar. 2008, <http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/bonfire-of-the-vanity-presses/story-e6frg8q6-1111115883955>.

‘In defence of poetry (and poets)’, Famous Reporter, no. 35 (2007), <http://walleahpress.com.au/FR35Prater.html>.

‘Taking Kylie to Korea’, Advocate: Newsletter of the National Tertiary Education Union, vol. 13, no. 1 (2006), <http://daveydreamnation.com/blogging/taking-kylie-to-korea>.

‘Experimental Literary Travel’, R. Antony (ed.), The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel (Lonely Planet: Melbourne, 2005).

‘Pranking Dos and Don’ts’, The Big Issue (Australia), Apr. 2003.

‘Dog ears and anarchism: performance poetry’ Meanjin, vol. 60, no. 2 (2001).

‘Bush vs City Poets’, Famous Reporter, no. 24 (Dec. 2001).

Interviews

‘An interview with Talan Memmott’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 36 (Dec. 2012), <http://cordite.org.au/features/an-interview-with-talan-memmott>.

‘An interview with Maria Engberg’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 36 (Dec. 2012), <http://cordite.org.au/features/an-interview-with-maria-engberg>.

‘An interview with Ko Un’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 31 (2009),
<http://cordite.org.au/interviews/ko-un>.

‘An interview with An Sonjae’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 31 (2009),
<http://www.cordite.org.au/features/david-prater-interviews-an-sonjae>.

‘An interview with Arjen Duinker’, Cordite Poetry Review (2009), <http://www.cordite.org.au/features/david-prater-interviews-arjen-duinker>.

‘An interview with Ryan Paine’, Cordite Poetry Review (2007), <http://www.cordite.org.au/features/david-prater-interviews-ryan-paine>.

‘A close encounter with CyberBarbie’, Cordite Poetry Review, 24 Apr. 2002, <http://www.cordite.org.au/features/david-prater-a-close-encounter-with-cyberbarbie>.

Reviews

‘The Performance of publication: recent Australian poetry [review of David Malouf’s Typewriter Music, David Brooks’ Urban Elegies, Angela Gardner’s Parts of Speech, Paul Mitchell’s Awake Despite the Hour and Anita Heiss’ I’m Not Racist, But . . .], Overland, no. 191 (winter 2008), <http://overland.org.au/?page_id=313>.

‘Remembering Shelton Lea [review of Delinquent Angel by Dianne Georgeff]’, Overland, no. 190 (autumn 2008).

Exit Strategy, by Douglas Rushkoff [book review]’, Traffic, no. 2 (2003).

On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology [book review]’, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, May 2003, <http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?ReviewID=218&BookID=184>.

‘The Mallarme Writer’s Event’, Cordite Poetry Review, no. 5 (1998).

Fiction

‘In a Dark Fibre Age’, Sleepers Almanac 2005.

Machines for Dying In: an article in the now-defunct Animist zine on euthanasia, coffins and machines.

‘A Brief History of Marzipan’ New England Review (UNE) 1999

‘Breakfast At Mario’s’ Voiceworks 1997

‘Five Wards’, Hermes (Sydney University) 1996

‘Scenes from ‘Office In a Small City’, Sydney University Student Union Prize for Prose, 1994